The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-05-04
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA.
The Career, AceouipIisimsits and Virtues
Of The6dwiukle brown. Esq.

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The Career, iccouipIisHmsits and Virtues
Of The6dwinkle Brown, Esq.
Mr. Theodwinkle Brown, Esq, is one
of the earliest settlers in Wnmppille-
if he ever takes notion to settle at
all He was born in 1929 and a log
cabin, and bis earliest years were the
first which his childhood conid claim
He early began TO attend nd school and
laid the strong foundation of no educa-
ton, though boy living next door to
him went to college. When the war
broke out with Mexico the patriotic
blood in his veins was greatly stirred,
and he set in to learn the carpenter
trade. When the battle of Buena Vista
was fought he couldn' walt any longer,
so he threw down his tools and offered
his services to a cooper and worked at
that trade. When General Taylor was
elected President he looked around for
Il good man for his Secretary of War,
but Brown was overlooked.
He decided to enter the political
field, and, as there was to be Con-
gressional vacancy in his district, he
boldly entered the next political con-
vention and announced his name as a
candidate for street commissioner, and
was elected. BY this time he had suc-
ceeded iii accommodating a small proper
ty and a large family, but he refrained
from being bloated aristocrat In
1858 he did not join any church and be-
come one Of the leading deacons in it,
constantly to be seen in his pew. and
gaining the praise of all the brethren
In the church. In the matter of relig-
ion he always remained neutral. His
honesty was never questioned-a great
deal, and he never chased the beggar
| away from his door, unless he hap
pened to be at home at the time.
In the civil war his very soul was
fired in the cause of the Union, and his
friends found it impossible to keep him
at home, while others were fighting at
| the front, so he was allowed to go with
| the draft. He went, but despairing of
capturing the Confederacy, he allowed
substitute to take his place, the lat
ter turning out to be one of the bravest
soldiers of the war. Brown always
takes great pride in speaking of the
deeds of this man which he gave to his
country at such great outlay.
Then he entered the field of litera-
ture and contributed articles, short and
to the point, to his home paper under
the nom de plume of "A Constant Sub
| scriber," and succeeded so we'll
that it is almost impossible to
pick up q country paper in the
| land that does not contain
something from his agile pen over his
nom. The world is familiar with it.
He justly feels his Importance over his
rival, "A Constant Reader because,
he maintains, Reader" does not sig
nifty that he is subscriber all the time;
he might be borrower
| Some of his critics say he lacks i'm
agination, but | beg leave to come to
his rescue and say that what he writes
is all the purest imagination to the last
statement. He has an active fancy,
which is manifest in all that he writes.
His articles are not surpassed even by
belief, and TO his credit it can be said
that he uses nothing but the purest ink
unless the flies should happen to get
in it.
By a ten-foot pole, Mr.. Brown
measured nearly six feet or less in his
stockings, with holes in the heels OF
heels i'm the holes. He talks and en-
courages temperance, and regrets that
he can not practice it, but he takes only
one glass at a time. BY constantly
writing with his head close to ho
lamp chimney, and his tongue out, he
has become bald, but he hopes when he
| gets into his second childhood, that hi
will have a second crop of hair. Hi:
step is frm-when he is going dowr
town in the evening, He does not show
his years-only when he can not pos
sibly avoid it. Mr.. Browns line is jus
$40 years old. beyond that he had nc
ancestors. He is proud of his name
since it has spread all over the worlC
and so many people wear it No mat
ter, he says, where you are, if YOU ash
any one if he knows Brown you will b,
answered. Certainly, know Brown
we'll. II. W. BeLteW, IN Detroit FREE
Press.